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Retouch: This choice takes you to the built-in photo editing functions,
such as red-eye removal and cropping.
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Set Up: Choose this icon to access camera setup options — things like
setting the date and time, adjusting monitor brightness, and so on.
Figure 1-10 :
Use the Multi Selector to highlight an option and then press OK to display the next
guided screen.
After choosing an option, press OK to display the first screen associated with
that category. For example, if you choose Set Up, you see the screen shown
on the right in Figure 1-10 . From there, use the Multi Selector to choose a
task and press OK to move on to the next screen. Just keep highlighting your
choice and pressing OK to make your way through the menus. To return to
the preceding screen, press the Multi Selector left (the Back symbol at the
bottom of the screen reminds you of this trick).
Although I appreciate the idea of the guided menus, I have a few quibbles
about how they're implemented on the D3300. First, you can't access all your
camera's features through the guided menus. Second, some choices Nikon
made for the arrangement of the guided menus set you up for confusion down
the line. For example, the Image Size and Image Quality options, which con-
trol resolution and file type (see Chapter 2 ), are found in the Set Up section
of the guided menus but live on the Shooting menu in the regular menus. So
if you get used to selecting those options in one place when you use guided
menus, you have to learn a whole new organization when you move on to the
regular menus. Additionally, when you adjust certain settings, including Image
Size and Image Quality, your changes apply only in Guide mode. So when you
return to another shooting mode, you have to adjust those settings again.
Don't get me wrong: If you like the guided menus, by all means, take advan-
tage of them. But my guess is that you don't need much help from me to do
so, which is why this is the last you'll read of them in this book.
Chapter 1: Getting Up and Running
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